Patrick J. Maher, who rented a room from Troy and Dulsie Varney, was in custody Friday.
Mark LaFlamme
Staff Writer
Mark LaFlamme is a Sun Journal reporter and weekly columnist. He's been on the nighttime police beat since 1994, which is just grand because he doesn't like getting out of bed before noon. Mark is the author of eight published novels and rides a dual sport motorcycle everywhere he goes. Unless it's winter, in which case he just sulks a lot.
Posted inFranklin
Farmington nursing home reports 29 cases of COVID-19
According to reports from the facility management, 19 residents and 10 staff have tested positive for the virus.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Street Talk: ‘Timmy’s adventures in school-skipping’
I feel sympathy for kids these days, whose lives have been so disrupted, and their realities so warped, that to skip school, all they are required to do is close their laptop lids and go sit in the living room.
Posted inbPlus, Lewiston-Auburn
Mold, a blackened cell, water buckets and tales of headless skeletons: A tour of the 165-year-old Androscoggin County Courthouse
While the ghastly remains of a cell where a jail inmate may have burned alive is disturbing, it’s not the most troubling thing you’ll see on a tour of the quaint, but decrepit old building.
Posted inbPlus, Lewiston-Auburn
Face Time: Chris L’Hommedieu — the man behind ‘Love Songs and Love Letters’
L/A Community Little Theatre’s ‘Love Songs and Love Letters’ will be available for viewing at 7 p.m. on Feb. 12, 13 and 14. The shows can be accessed through the L/A Community Little Theatre webpage at laclt.com
Posted inbPlus, Mark LaFlamme
Talk of the Town: My deep basso voice
Dollars and sense Oh, this is rich. Ever since I wrote a story about some local folks who received their stimulus checks in unsealed envelopes, I’ve been getting emails from people who want MY advice about their own financials. How should they go about inquiring about the status of their checks? How should they proceed […]
Posted inOxford Hills
Suspect in Oxford standoff remains in jail on $35,000 bail
Brian Cabral, 42, appeared in court Friday on charges of creating a police standoff, violating conditions of release, unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs and domestic violence terrorizing.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Attorney General to Androscoggin County commissioners: Mask up
Aaron Frey sent a letter on the heels of a meeting Wednesday in which the panel voted to table a resolution rejecting the COVID-19 mask mandate ordered by Gov. Janet Mills.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston Big Brothers Big Sisters go big at Super Bowl
Photo cutouts of Connors Elementary School students displayed in stands during Sunday’s game in Tampa, Florida.
Posted inMaine Crime, Oxford Hills
Buckfield homeowner arrested after standoff with police
State police say Daniel Sweetser met them at the door with an ax.